Cricket Australia have announced the international summer of cricket fixtures for 2019-20, with a day-night Test in Western Australia, an ODI series in March and three teams touring across the course of the summer all points of note.

Despite Australia’s desire to avoid it, a limited-overs tour to India appears all but certain to be scheduled in January with today’s announcement, meaning there will be no international cricket played down under between the end of the New Year’s Test and late March.

It also all but confirms that Australia’s best white ball cricketers will be yanked out of the Big Bash League during the second half of January.

By that stage of the year, most drop-in wickets will have been removed, meaning Cricket Australia have had to schedule the first two ODI matches in Sydney, before attention shifts to Hobart, who get their first and only match of the summer featuring Australia.

That means New Zealand’s tour gets split into two parts, with their first Test set to be played in Perth as a day-night encounter, meaning a 4pm start in Sydney and Melbourne, and an even later 6pm start in New Zealand.

The Black Caps will then stick around for the Boxing Day and New Year’s Test in Melbourne and Sydney respectively.

Before Australia play New Zealand, they will host Pakistan in the first two Tests of the summer in Brisbane, which regains the opening match, and Adelaide in a day-night encounter.

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Pakistan will also play three T20s before their Test series, while the first men’s matches of the summer will take the form of three T20s against Sri Lanka, to be played in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne from Sunday, October 27.

On the women’s side of the coin, apart from the T20 World Cup, which will be played in late February and early March, they will commence the summer with three ODIs and three T20s against Sri Lanka.

T20 cricket will be the main course for the Southern Stars this summer ahead of the World Cup, with the WBBL set to end in late January and be followed by a T20 tri-series against England and India, with all matches to be played in Canberra, and at the Junction Oval in Melbourne.

All domestic fixtures are set to be announced by Cricket Australia at a later date. They are set to include a revamped one-day cup, and a new BBL finals series.